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Definition of labiovelar in English:

labiovelar

adjective

‘In the Ionic of Homer's time, as well as in all other classical dialects, the labiovelar stops had developed into labials, dentals or velars.’

‘It would then make sense to reconstruct a corresponding set of velar and labiovelar fricatives.’

noun

Phonetics

A labiovelar sound.

‘The second change consists of a reduction in the set of vowels subject to a co-occurrence restriction between labiovelars and labial vowels.’

‘Consonant contrast includes labiovelars and bilabials, as in minimal pairs like nap and na, and ol and mol, but these contrasts can be neutralized in other neighboring languages, so more study should be done on how perceptible and instrumentally verifiable the differences are.’